OR you could say, “The doctor called to tell me the pregnancy test was positive and I just passed clean out!”

Carl Randall

One night while asleep, I had a dream that I was at the gym training for a slot on the Canadian Winter Olympics ice skating team for the 2018 games. I tried to balance myself but fell out of my bed and broke my ankle.
😎

You could use the same story about your fractures that actually happened to my cousin. On her way out that evening, when she went to get her coat, she accidentally stepped into the cat’s litter box. The box went slip sliding away, taking my surprised cousin along with it. She found herself on the floor with a fractured leg, checking out the paint on the ceiling.

I was playing tennis and as I jumped in the air to serve I landed wrong and broke my ankle, but that serve won the game for me. ☺

Chip Barkel

You can borrow my story. (Substitute foot for hand.)

I was going in to make an offer presentation on a house in the west end. We were #11 or 16. It was the night of the last snowstorm of the year. There was one step up on the sidewalk leading to the house. It was icy and I had leather shoes. I was losing my balance but trying not to fall. The more I tried, the more I accelerated falling headfirst. As my head and face hurled towards the brick steps, I reached out and my middle finger on my right hand took the brunt of the force. One look at my hand and I knew my finger was broken….

The good news is my finger was not broken. The bad news is that it was badly dislocated. The really, really good news is while waiting in the emergency room I found a house for our buyers on Instagram. They went to see that house and subsequently offered and they were the successful buyers.

9. Karen

“I snagged my foot on a root while getting up off my knees from praying to the gardening gods to make my wisteria bloom.”

OK – 2 possibilities. 1 – the Truth. “I was in a car accident a few years ago. It’s taken years to recover and I’m still not there. Sometimes my body is not where I think it is, and does not do what I think it will. Like this time – I stood up, passed out and fell down.”
2 – “My husband stretched his hand out to me, and when I stood up to put mine in his … well, I looked in his eyes, and he was just so damned handsome that I passed out and fell down.”

A teenie weenie mouse did it! As I opened the door, she came in. I tripped on the door sill trying to escape….!!

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Debra Roppolo My stories are not so exciting either. I finally started telling people I was in circus school.

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Dale Ratcliffe You got tipsy one night, starting chasing Mr. G around the bedroom and slipped on the clothes he left lying on the floor!

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Mark Fullerton You were auditioning for the “Life Alert Emergency Service” commercial and practicing the line “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.”

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Rex Deverell You were walking down the street, perfectly innocently, on a lovely day, but a crane operator had been drinking on the job and lost control of his machine. Right behind you a great hook swung like a pendulum and caught the strap of your handbag. You refused to let go – what was in that handbag? Finally, by the time you and the bag were extricated you were practically in the next county. The landing was a bit rough given the inebriation of the crane operator – hence the damage to the ankles.

It did. I have the limp to prove it. The second one was how my Mum broke her arm, the third how my brother had three stitches in his chin and the last one … well actually it was a dog but yes, it did happen. 😉

Such interesting replies. Good idea to allow your readers to decide. I like Victo Doloro, not only is is partly true but it will be sure to start a conversation which might result in grist for another book, which I will be sure to read😘

*Paula de Ronde* *Read to know. Travel to Discover. Live and love.* *There are good ships, and there are wood ships* *The ships that sail the sea* *But the best ships, are friendships* *And may they always be.*

On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Cynthia Reyes – Author wrote:

> Cynthia Reyes posted: “I asked readers to send a better story than “I got > up, passed out and fell down”, to explain my broken ankle. The entries are > in. Please vote for the best story. The person who gets the most votes will > receive a signed copy of either “A Good Home” or “” >

Really sorry about your broken ankle, Cynthia. I hope it’s soon as good as new. I enjoyed reading all the entries, though. The crane one was my favourite. It makes it sound like such a riotous adventure. 🙂

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